Definition of 'calculated'
1. adjective
If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
Their movements were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings.
These tracks were calculated to be controversial and attract attention to the album.
2. adjective
3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
If you take a calculated risk, you do something which you think might be successful, although you have fully considered the possible bad consequences of your action.
The President took a calculated political risk in throwing his full support behind
the rebels.
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adjective (usually prenominal)
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adjective
1.
done by mathematical calculation
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Derived forms
adverb
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He glanced at his watch; he had calculated he would be at Willington Hall by ten o'clock. A TROUT IN THE MILK (1991)It was not a suggestion calculated to please the magistrate. A TROUT IN THE MILK (1991)
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British English: calculated ADJECTIVE
If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect.
Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings.
- American English: calculated
- Brazilian Portuguese: calculado
- Chinese: 故意作出的
- European Spanish: intencionado
- French: délibéré
- German: ausgerichtet
- Italian: calcolato
- Japanese: 意図されて
- Korean: 계산된
- European Portuguese: calculado
- Spanish: intencionado
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